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Originally Posted by Orruar
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Pretty much this right here. People bemoan the ease of today's MMOs, but are frightened of the more grindy era of EQ. Velious is actually one of the expansions that requires the least effort. There are no new levels to obtain, and you can gear up a guild quite easily from tov trash. Even faction grinding really just takes the form of tagging the boss on a few kills, which you can do regardless of who is killing the mob. You could say that it takes some effort to gear people up to handle the tougher mobs of the expansion, but I'll go ahead and make the bold prediction that no guilds will take the "right" path of gearing up 30-40 solid raiders to then challenge tormax/aow/ntov. Instead they'll be zerging around with 60-80 people, some of whom may have the best gear, but not many.
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Not everyone was 60 at Velious launch. Hell, they still were by Luclin.
I started at Kunark launch and was high 30s by Velious and enjoyed the lower level content on it as did many others who enjoyed the lower content of Luclin.
I can't speak for Luclin, but Velious didn't ruin old drops, just added horizontal improvements or added similar drops to other heavily camped ones allowing more options like the haste gloves from Velks putting less pressure on getting a FBSS.